Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
L'Archivio Neural è un archivio di pubblicazioni noi raccolte nel corso degli anni. Sfoglia la nostra collezione qui.
Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553086, 312 pages, August 1, 2010, English
Carsten Nicolai ha attitudini diverse per il suono, l’arte, la scienza e il graphic design, ma sono quasi perfettamente coerenti →
Baltan Laboratories, ISBN 9789081583015, English, 2010
Dopo l’istituzione del MIT Media Lab nel 1985 il concetto di “Lab”, inteso come spazio di ricerca e sperimentazione attraverso le tecnologie e i →
Come può un semplice oggetto autonomo, con una forma universale diventare “emotivo”? I nostri sentimenti ancestrali sono attivati da meccanismi molto semplici che vengono innescati dalla necessità di migliorare la conservazione e la riproduzione →
Che l’economia di capitale sia destinata a collassare ciclicamente su se stessa è un assunto. L’ultimissimo (disastroso) decennio ha contribuito alla nascita di una varietà di iniziative volte alla creazione di sistemi alternativi →
Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-1-933128-71-9, July 2010 / Hardcover / 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches / 244 pp / 15 b&w
C’è stato un tempo in cui si sono consumati aspri →
In Coded Sensation tutto ciò che accade è generato dal tatto. Delle mani accarezzano sinuosamente corpi e oggetti interamente ricoperti da un tessuto nero, lucido e iridiscente, generando suoni. Il tessuto →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262514354, 656 pages, April 30, 2010, English
Due anni dopo “Access Denied”, lo stesso team di autori ha pubblicato un nuovo consistente libro sulla censura e il →
Aagoo Rec., dvd, 2011, ACO026
La simbiosi tra un video artista e un musicista può portare a sinergie inaspettatamente efficaci quando entrambi scelgono un territorio condiviso da indagare. Questo è quello →
Il nuovo progetto di Paolo Cirio nasce con l’obiettivo di rivendicare la possibilità della generazione della ricchezza dal basso per una sua più equa ripartizione nella società. Attualmente le banche sono →
Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN-13: 978-1568989372, September 1, 2010, English
Questo libro nasce dalle conoscenze condivise tra due colleghi della UCLA (Reas, uno dei due creatori di Processing, e McWilliams) e gli olandesi →
